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In trying to write a historically inaccurate romance novel, I have had some difficulty avoiding doing research. My balancing act finally crashed resoundingly when my inaccurate-plot met with my accurate-history and then they all gave one another the cut direct and swore to never visit this establishment again.
So I wrote START OVER in very big letters in my notebook and followed that with:
Ooo, la! I am a young miss who happens to know codebreaking, out and about Town for the first time! My father the prelate taught it to me, and now I am a companion to this young miss, a debutante of the First Water! I follow her to London, where, mysteriously, a young lordling drops into my lap and says, "what ho! can you count to five?" At my affirmative, he kisses me. Hurrah!
It has changed somewhat since then (I've dropped the codebreaking entirely, for one thing), but the general feeling remains.
Hurrah, indeed.
So I wrote START OVER in very big letters in my notebook and followed that with:
Ooo, la! I am a young miss who happens to know codebreaking, out and about Town for the first time! My father the prelate taught it to me, and now I am a companion to this young miss, a debutante of the First Water! I follow her to London, where, mysteriously, a young lordling drops into my lap and says, "what ho! can you count to five?" At my affirmative, he kisses me. Hurrah!
It has changed somewhat since then (I've dropped the codebreaking entirely, for one thing), but the general feeling remains.
Hurrah, indeed.